390 million-year-old lungfish fossils found in Yunnan

Restoration of Dianodipterus huizeensis. (Photo/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

(Photo/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Fossils of Dianodipterus huizeensis dating back 390 million years have been discovered in Huize county, east Yunnan's Qujing city. 

The tooth-plated lungfish had a new type of dentate plate, which made it unlikely to feed on hard shells like other lungfishes, but on aquatic mollusks or even other fish by sucking.